Isura Ranatunga
Co-Founder at Rabot
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsura Ranatunga is a co-founder and systems engineer with 12 years of experience building practical automation for warehouse operations and robotics. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on startup leadership at Rabot with deep research and engineering roots from a PhD program and roles at Apple and robotics labs. His background spans physical human-robot interaction, reinforcement learning, ROS-based system design, and real-world deployment on platforms from PR2 and Baxter to production systems. At Apple he sharpened systems design skills that now inform scalable, reliable warehouse automation; earlier research led a team to first place in an IEEE robotic land-mine detection competition. He’s comfortable moving between low-level control, perception, and product-facing automation, and brings a rare mix of academic rigor and operational focus to solve tactile, floor-level problems. Expect a founder who thinks like a roboticist: measuring, iterating, and automating to make everyday work smarter.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (15)
lists9
ros9
robot8
robotics7
webots4
meta4
realtime3
infrastructure3
ros-driver2
groovy1
skeleton1
python1
ethercat1
configurations1
pipeline1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
isura/elfin_robot
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
ROS meta-package for Elfin robot
Contributions:4 pushes in 11 months
roboticsmeta-packageros2webotsmeta
isura/precise
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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